Leksvik Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nord-Trøndelag
- District
- Fosen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 31 Dec 2017
- Succeeded by
- Indre Fosen Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Leksvik
- Mayor 2015 2017
- Steinar Saghaug ( H )
- Total
- 430.22 km (166.11 sq mi)
- Land
- 399.70 km (154.33 sq mi)
- Water
- 30.52 km (11.78 sq mi) 7.1%
- Rank
- # 230 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 601 m (1,972 ft)
- Density
- 8.1/km (21/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.1%
- Demonym
- Leksværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- leksværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nord-Trøndelag
- Capital
- Leksvik
- Population
- 3531
- Area
- 430.21
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Trondheim municipality
- Official website
- www.leksvik.kommune.no
- Image
- Leksvik-church-Norway.jpg
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- Commons category
- Leksvik (former municipality)
- replaced by
- Indre Fosen Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2017-12-31
- different from
- Leksvik
- inception
- 1838-01-01
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Indre Fosen Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Leksvik is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2018 when it became part of the newly created Indre Fosen Municipality in Trøndelag county. The administrative center of the municipality was the village of Leksvik. Other villages in Leksvik included Vanvikan, Seter, and Dalbygda. Norwegian County Road 755 is the main road that connected the whole municipality from north to south.
Leksvik as seen from Våttåhaugen. Photo: Christian Nesset Prior to its dissolution in 2018, the 430-square-kilometre (170 sq mi) municipality was the 230th largest by area out of the then 426 municipalities in Norway. Leksvik Municipality was the 249th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,480. The municipality's population density was 8.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (23/sq mi) and its population had decreased by 0.1% over the last decade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leksvik Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.